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Methuselah Syndrome

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Methuselah Syndrome	comment	The tendency for ancient and fantasy settings to show humans having very long lifespans despite the lack of any established medical science. People will routinely live to a century or better while remaining lucid and active. Might or might not be explained as Wizards Live Longer, Our Humans Are Different or simply A Wizard Did It in the case of magical characters, or Enlightenment Superpowers for spiritual ones. Because in fiction age automatically equals wisdom rather than, say, the gradual death of brain cells, this character is frequently is an Old Master or a mentor. (Of course, research on senility-due-to-age has been skewed by mental illnesses like Alzheimer's; people without those diseases can do very well, but those diseases are all too common.) Interestingly, this is an inversion from the myth of people in the past rarely living to old age, which is mostly the error of averaging the historically high child mortality rate. Not to be confused with Improbable Age. If there's only one or a few characters like this, especially cute little girls in a Bishoujo Series, it's Really 700 Years Old. If long lives are common and explained by science, it's We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future. Not to be confused with the "Methuselah Syndrome" in Blade Runner, a genetic disorder which causes people to succumb to aging too quickly.note A real-life version is known as "progeria"; but it includes a shortened life span, usually no more than 13 years. Sorry, Sebastian. Examples
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½ gives us both Happosai and Cologne, two ridiculously skilled martial artists nowhere near slowing down (despite both being very old and crinkly) at the age of at least 120 (manga) or 300 (anime). There's also Rakkyousai, Happosai's cohort in the manga, and Chingensai and a whole bevy of Miniature Senior Citizens in a late Filler episode of the anime.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Humans in the Destiny universe have very long natural lifespans, which is justified by centuries of species-wide genetic enhancements during the Golden Age. This is a version of our world where humanity began hitting The Singularity after making contact with a benevolent Mechanical Abomination powerful and advanced enough to terraform planets, so it makes sense that people live longer. It is, in fact, off-handedly specified at one point that human lifespans tripled during the Golden Age; the average life expectancy today is in the mid-to-late 70s, so that indicates that post-Traveler humans on average live for about 240 years, if not more.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_1fec263f	comment	In Moses, Man of the Mountain, in agreement with the biblical account, Moses is somewhere upwards of ninety by the time of his death, and he even says that if he wanted to he could have easily gone another ten or twenty years. Similarly, his supposed brother Aaron makes it over a hundred.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_22d74b2e	comment	The original Redwall book actually had a very old character named Methuselah, who was killed about midway into the book. Also, it's noted that badgers, especially Badger Lords, can live four times longer than the other species - most of Mossflower's creatures measure time in "seasons", so evidently Mossflower's badgers age at the same rate as real-life humans.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_2372359	comment	A side-effect of practicing sorcery in The Belgariad is indefinitely-increased lifespan. Except for the characters who become sorcerers during course of the main story, every magic-user in the books is at least one thousand years old. Belgarath, the very first sorcerer, is almost as old as humanity itself, being 7000 years old. Judging from his encounter with the Godless Ones while still a teenager, it's extremely likely that his long-dead grandfather was one of the original humans created by the Gods. Beldin notes that if Belgarath were to speak in the language of his long-ago destroyed village, nobody would be able to understand him-not even Beldin.)
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_33a61b13	comment	In One Hundred Years of Solitude Ãšrsula lives at least 120 years or so, and Pilar Ternera lives to 145.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_39e3b5ff	comment	A lot of movies and shows with Buddhist monks tend to do this. Kill Bill, for example, establishes Pai Mei as being either well over 120 or more than a thousand years old, depending on whether you want to go by the original script (which states that Pai Mei was already a martial arts master in 1883), Real Life (where he was in 1647 if not earlier), or the actual film (where David Carradine ad-libbed the line into "one double-aught three", or 1003). No explanation is given; it's implied that Pai Mei is just that badass.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter has many of these. Magical ability seems to automatically prolong one's lifespan. Some characters experiencing this are: Dumbledore who was no less than 115 when he was killed. In the sixth book he says that he does not expect to live to the end of the year, but this is only because of a cursed ring he foolishly tried to wear. Word of God says that the average life expectance for a British wizard or witch (or presumably squib) is 134.75. Bathilda Bagshot was Dumbledore's neighbor as a kid and a great aunt of his contemporary/old "friend" Gellert Grindelwald. She almost outlived them both and even she didn't die of natural causes but rather was killed by Voldemort's snake Nagini. Grindelwald himself died at about the age of 115 from suicide by proxy rather than poor health. Griselda Marchbanks is a proctor for the O.W.L. exams seen briefly in the fifth book, mentioned that she personally tested Dumbledore when he was a student. Ron's Great-Great-Aunt Muriel, who in spite of being younger than Dumbledore, Marchbanks, and Bagshot, is still 107 years old. Hagrid is only in his sixties at the time of the books, but does not have a single gray hair on him. Hagrid is also half-giant. Subverted by Scabbers, Ron's pet rat. He appears to have been alive for at least twelve years (nine longer than rats normally live), but that's only because he's really Peter Pettigrew.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_41b0198a	comment	In the world of The Dresden Files, it's established that wizards just plain live longer than normals, with 200-300 years being average. A doctor, having seen a series of Harry Dresden's X-rays (when he can get the machine to work, anyway) theorizes that his cells are much better at repairing themselves than those of a normal person.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_468bebb0	comment	Wizards in Discworld who are competent enough to live to 60 without being assassinated will most likely make it well past 100. The oldest wizard mentioned in the books, Windle Poons, makes it to 130.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons, high-level monks, druids, and some other classes have an ability called "timeless body". While it doesn't lengthen their lifespans, it does render them immune to aging penalties (bonuses still accrue) all the way up to the moment of a death by natural causes. Other methods to be human and either age gracefully or live a long time: the epic (for characters of level 21+ only) feat Extended Lifespan, which can be taken multiple times; and taking levels in the Ruathar prestige class, which is the game's mechanical way of saying "elves have blessed you and call you friend". Elans are psionically upgraded humans who have no limit to their lifespan - although they accrue the aging bonuses and penalties, after that they just keep on going until they are killed by other means. They also don't need to sleep, can forsake food and water by spending an insignificant amount of psionic energy, and cannot breed (they need to convert humans). Outside of becoming a god or an undead, they are the only canonical way of truly living forever.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_72262aee	comment	A few characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender are in their 100s, and this isn't viewed as anything especially unusual by the cast. The co-creators hand waved it by loosely comparing it to the concept of Xians, Taoist immortals who could live up to half a millennium. However, they admit that they did it primarily for plot-time purposes and didn't learn of the mythology until long afterward. Fire Lord Sozin died in his sleep at the age of 102. Then again, he was the ruler of the Fire Nation and could afford a long lifespan, plus it's mentioned that he may have used the power of the comet named after him to extend his lifespan. Bumi is 112 and still physically active. Guru Pathik knew Monk Gyatso, who died 100 years ago, with the website specifying Pathik as being 150. Kyoshi was 230, the longest-lived Avatar; she may have looked the same in all appearances, but she did wear pretty heavy makeup. In fact, it's notable that this DIDN'T happen to Aang: being frozen for a hundred years while in the Avatar State adversely affected his lifespan. If you count the hundred years in ice, sure, he lived to 166, but biologically he was only 66 when he died.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_78e27fa7	comment	In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Archsage Athos, Dark Sage Brammimond and the Big Bad Nergal are all well over a thousand years old, justified by being among the most powerful magic users ever seen in that 'verse.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_7dcce034	comment	In Ranma Saotome, Chi Master, QiÃ¡ng Wang is over three hundred years old.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings, the NÃºmenÃ³reans, or Men of the West, had extremely long life-spans granted to them when they were given NÃºmenor. Aragorn lived to 210, and the fact that most men of NÃºmenÃ³rean descent had much shorter lives (partly resulting from Gondor interbreeding with non-Dunedain humans) was mentioned as a sign of the sorry state the world was in. Part of the explanation for the men of NÃºmenÃ³r... well, no, just the royal line (including Aragorn) being so long-lived is because their first leader, Elros Tar-Minyatur, was a half-elf who chose to follow his human side. Despite choosing mortality (unlike his brother, Elrond), he still had a greatly extended lifespan: he reigned for 410 years until his death at 500 years.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_90f42a9b	comment	Channelers in the Wheel of Time series live much longer than non-channelers. Aes Sedai are routinely at least two hundred years old, and it's discovered in the series that their upper limit of around 300 is a side effect of the Oaths they swear; those who haven't sworn the Oaths can reach beyond that, around 600-650. Rand says that Lews Therin was a bit over 400 when he died and was only middle aged. We can assume that the upper limit of channelers is probably somewhere around 700-800 for the really long lived ones. (Male channelers presumably would have the same conditions, except for the whole "Power tainted by the Dark One" factor.)
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_944191c6	comment	In Kyo Kara Maoh!, the residents of Shin Makokou live for a very long time. Wolfram, for example, is supposed to be 83, but looks (and frankly, acts) like he's no older than 16.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_96f8c98f	comment	The protagonist of Earth 2100, Lucy, has lived to be 91 years old and still in pretty good shape, while most of the world's population has died off from diseases and starvation.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_985ad25d	comment	Master Roshi is over 300 years old when first introduced. It is revealed that he had a pet phoenix that could bestow immortality on to others, making it so they couldn't die of old age, before it died from eating tainted bird seed. Roshi later claims to have drank an elixir that made him completely immortal, which his turtle brings up when Roshi lies that he is dying of old age (despite the fact that Roshi told this lie to Goku, who should have already known that Roshi was already incapable of dying from old age due to the phoenix, elixir or not). It is revealed during the King Piccolo Saga that Roshi lied about the elixir, and that it doesn't even actually exist, so he is only immortal in that he cannot die of old age. During Dragon Ball Super, Roshi is seen eating Paradise Herbs in place of the phoenix's power, claiming it'll extend his life, implying that either the phoenix's ability has worn off/was never true in the first place, or just might help to avert Age Without Youth. Considering his previous lie, and the one to get the herb in ''Super'', it's tough to tell.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, Word of God has stated any human can live to be 140 and apparently some (or at least Kureha) are so badass they can easily live much longer. The humans do seem to get old at the same time as real humans, though. Whitebeard was 72 and had many problems with his health due to old age. Rayleigh seems to be about the same age as Whitebeard, and Garp, being 19-year-old Luffy's grandfather, is probably in his 60's or 70's - both of them have complained of not being able to perform their usual feats and tire easily because they have gotten old.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla is stated to be a dinosaur that was somehow still living underwater, who was then mutated and provoked by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Either there is an entire colony of Godzillasaurs living in secret, or he's been alive for at least 65 million years. The former possibility has some logic to it, since the original film killed him at the end, and all later films star a different individual.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_a5549ed0	comment	Methuselah from the biblical Book of Genesis lives 969 years, longer than any human in the Bible. That said, most humans from before the flood have a given age of several centuries. After the flood, human lifespan gradually decreases to closer to what it is now. There are several figures after this point who are said to have lived just over one hundred, which is technically possible but still unlikely for an ancient Hebrew. In the books after the Pentateuch, which took place much closer to the time of the lives of their writers, people live somewhat more reasonable lifespans.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, people of the plane of Ravnica have significantly longer life spans; Argus Kos of the Boros is well over a century old, and still an active law enforcement agent. Also, while he's over a century old, he does think every so often that a hundred is too old for law enforcement work, has a few problems with his age, and tends to overuse magical health packs. Overall, his complaints seem similar to those of a 50-year-old officer in our world (just substitute magical health packs for prescription painkillers.)
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_b21cd2c3	comment	Eumnestes from The Faerie Queene is a librarian so old he remembers the infancy of Methuselah and has first-hand accounts of all the wars of ancient Greece, which he spends all day reading through with the help of his young assistant, Anamnestes.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The Great House Telvanni grandmasters are extraordinarily old even for a species with an average lifespan that is measured in centuries. Ultimately Downplayed, as it's implied that they use various forms of magic (particularly necromancy) to reach those ages, and very few of the oldest ones are mentally stable anymore as a result. Bloodmoon features the warrior Ulfgar the Unending, who's been on a quest for 500 years. His name implies he's an immortal, but how or why is never stated in the game. Divayth Fyr is said to be nearly 4,000 years old by one of the female clones he made of himself (all of whom are at least in their hundreds themselves). Whether he's older than his Dwemer guest (who was a master craftsman when the Tribunal ascended some 3,000+ years ago) is up for debate.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines are known for their longevity, routinely living for centuries (provided they don't die in battle). Those grievously wounded in battle may be ensconced in Dreadnought armor, which renders them functionally immortal (for a price). Baseline humans can receive medical rejuvenation treatment that can extend their lives well into the triple digits. For example, at the time of Cain's Last Stand, Ciaphas Cain is well over one hundred (as is his aid, Gunner Jurgen). Generally however, the treatments that allow this sort of long life are reserved for the rich and the well-off.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_c4282b71	comment	In one episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle says that Ponyville has been doing the Winter Wrap Up manually for hundreds of years. In a later episode, Granny Smith claims to be one of the founders of Ponyville. Assuming they're correct (Twilight is likely to have read up on the subject, and Diamond Tiara's family have a business agreement that corroborates the claim) Granny Smith would be several hundred years old. She's geriatric in almost every way but still keeps up her farmwork duties, she's clearheaded despite appearances, and unlike the millennia-old princesses Celestia and Luna, she's a simple earth pony with no fancy magic. Since all of the geriatric ponies seen on the show thus far have been earth ponies, a common fan theory is that while pegasi can fly and unicorns have magic, the gift of earth ponies is long lifespans.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_c46cf0c1	comment	Mr. Jingles in The Green Mile is a mouse that lived some 70 years. His long-life is a sign of the special gift imparted by him to John Coffey. Like Christ, Coffey healed Jingles and imparted the same gift to his prison guard, who went on to live for more than a hundred and nine years.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_c717e9ce	comment	Cinderella in The 10th Kingdom is a highly amusing parody of this trope. As one of the Five Women Who Changed History (and the only one still living), she is over 200 years old, yet looks only middle-aged and still quite beautiful due to 'magic surgery.' However, this does not extend beyond the surface—not only does she hack, cough, and nearly pass out from the various ailments she suffers from, but during her dance with the Dog Prince, her bones audibly creak and she ends up stuck bent over backward, needing help upright again.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_cd1550c5	comment	Roland, in The Dark Tower, although that's mostly because the collapse of his world has made the nature of time's passage murky at best.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_ce50887e	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Methuselah Syndrome / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: Master Roshi is over 300 years old when first introduced. It is revealed that he had a pet phoenix that could bestow immortality on to others, making it so they couldn't die of old age, before it died from eating tainted bird seed. Roshi later claims to have drank an elixir that made him completely immortal, which his turtle brings up when Roshi lies that he is dying of old age (despite the fact that Roshi told this lie to Goku, who should have already known that Roshi was already incapable of dying from old age due to the phoenix, elixir or not). It is revealed during the King Piccolo Saga that Roshi lied about the elixir, and that it doesn't even actually exist, so he is only immortal in that he cannot die of old age. During Dragon Ball Super, Roshi is seen eating Paradise Herbs in place of the phoenix's power, claiming it'll extend his life, implying that either the phoenix's ability has worn off/was never true in the first place, or just might help to avert Age Without Youth. Considering his previous lie, and the one to get the herb in ''Super'', it's tough to tell. Roshi's sister, Baba, is over 500 years old. Her and Roshi's parents must also have been extremely long lived to have had two children that were 200 years apart in age, though unlike with Roshi, how they lived that long, and how Baba obtained immortality (and if the parents were actually immortal or are even still alive, though that's unlikely since we never see them) is never revealed. The Crane Hermit and his brother Tao are also hundreds of years old. Again, their immortality is never explained, unlike Roshi's.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_e26905cd	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Methuselah Syndrome / int_e26905cd	comment	Wang from Tekken is (as of Tekken 5, at least) 104 years old. He seems to have some back problems (one of his opening poses), which mysteriously vanish whenever he's beating ass in the tournament.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_e48493b3	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Methuselah Syndrome / int_e48493b3	comment	Several characters in the Ultima series have very long lifespans for little explained reason. Lord British has been around since the very first game, and while he's white-haired in the ninth game, it's explained to be due to despair over his failing kingdom rather than age. Likewise, the Warriors of Virtue (the Avatar's companions) are still fit for a fight, as are a whole lot of other recurring characters. Taking the prize for inexplicable youth is Sherry the Mouse, a talking but otherwise fairly ordinary mouse who has weathered the two hundred years between the sixth and seventh game without any trouble at all.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_e48493b3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_e5dfd2c1	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Methuselah Syndrome / int_e5dfd2c1	comment	In the Zork chronology, both Dalboz of Gurth and Mir Yannick lived for a very long time. That's justified because Dalboz cast a spell on both of them. Played straight, however, are the examples of one of the King Zylon (the Aged) and Antharia Jack, who both lived for a very long time for no apparent reason.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_e694aadb	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Methuselah Syndrome / int_e694aadb	comment	Baseline humans can receive medical rejuvenation treatment that can extend their lives well into the triple digits. For example, at the time of Cain's Last Stand, Ciaphas Cain is well over one hundred (as is his aid, Gunner Jurgen). Generally however, the treatments that allow this sort of long life are reserved for the rich and the well-off.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_ffae98c0	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Methuselah Syndrome / int_ffae98c0	comment	In Sewer, Gas & Electric, Kite is a one-armed Sweet Polly Oliver Civil War veteran, and is over 170 years old. No special reason; she's just a tough ol' broad who never got around to dying.
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Methuselah Syndrome / int_ffae98c0	featureConfidence	1.0
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